November 2015 MARITIME REPORTER ENGINEERING NEWS AND … · vessel company looked to Sentinel to...
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MARITIME REPORTER The World’s Largest Circulation Marine Industry Publication • The Information Authority for the Global Marine Industry since 1939 AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M November 2015 Workboats Z-Drives continue to gain favor on Inland Waterways Changing Gears Deleroi drives change at Reintjes Floating Production Market Outlook through 2020 The Chassis Master Running Fast & Stable with Ophardt Ship Recycling Cleaning Up Overseas Marine Eco Products Japan takes the Lead
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MARITIMEREPORTER
The World’s Largest Circulation Marine Industry Publication • The Information Authority for the Global Marine Industry since 1939
ANDENGINEERING NEWS
M A R I N E L I N K . C O M
November 2015
WorkboatsZ-Drives continue to gain favor on
Inland Waterways
Changing GearsDeleroi drives change at Reintjes
Floating ProductionMarket Outlook through 2020
The Chassis MasterRunning Fast & Stable with Ophardt
Ship RecyclingCleaning Up Overseas
Marine Eco ProductsJapan takes the Lead
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Reprinted with Permission from the November 2015 edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News - www.marinelink.com
Gangway Controls Sentinel, a Beier Radio company, engineers technology solutions that help preserve multi-million dollar investments. After the manufac-turer of a gangway system went out of business, threatening to render that investment useless, a vessel company looked to Sentinel to engineer new gangway controls and provide new control software to get the gangway back into operation quickly and cost-effectively.
Sentinel’s team of engineers and marine elec-tronics professionals did just that, designing and manufacturing new control systems and PLC for a Master Control Console Chair for a fraction of the cost of replacing the unit. The master con-trol chair outfitted by Sentinel includes joysticks to operate the gangway, which can be manually controlled during approach and switched to au-tomated mode for a free-float landing that allows a seven-foot safety toleration. Monitors installed by Sentinel in the chair console and in the wheelhouse allow the operator and vessel captain to view the gangway activity. The control systems and PLC were designed and manufactured by Sentinel at Beier Radio’s 20-acre facility in Gray, LA. Sentinel is an original equipment manufacturer of high quality control and instrumentation products and systems, and is an affiliate of Beier Integrated Systems and The Marine Training Institute within the Beier Radio family of companies.
Booth 3227 at the International Workboat Show
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Workboat 2015December 1-3, 2015, New Orleans
next month in new Orleans the domes-tic north American industry gathers for an annual workboat event on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Following is a short preview of new products and ser-vices scheduled to be on display in some form at the exhibition.
